Sudipto Ghosh

I’m a PhD student in the Laboratory for Computational Social Systems (LCS2) under the supervision of Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. I am mainly interested in NLP/DL research with a focus on the interpretability of knowledge distillation from large language models to smaller language models.

I obtained my undergraduate degree in CS from the University of Delhi. I jumped on an opportunity to work on NLP research as a research intern at NIT Kurukshetra under Dr. Sarika Jain, where I worked on knowledge graph construction from legal text. I went on to pursue a MSc in Computer Science where I was part of the Legal Text Analytics Lab led by Prof. Vasudha Bhatnagar and Dr. Vikas Kumar. Later when I read linguistic works by Chomsky and Pinker, the idea of how human language evolved kept me intrigued and motivated me to pursue research. I worked on a legal LM as part of my MSc thesis and really wanted to understand its internals.

Before going for my MSc, I also worked as a Software Developer for Jhatkaa.org. I have been an active open-source contributor in the past and received the MLH Open Source Fellowship in Summer 2021. I am also a licensed ham radio operator with the callsign VU3ZNI. Apart from tech, I love to write postcards and explore new places.